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==Historical Photos== | ==Historical Photos== | ||
The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/imagesearch.php '''Image Database'''] on Miriam Weiner's website contains photographs and postcard views of many towns and cities throughout Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and other select countries dating back to the early 1900s. These include pre-WWI and current town views, photos of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and Holocaust memorials. It's a great way to see what your ancestor's shtetl may have looked like at the time they lived there. | The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/imagesearch.php '''Image Database'''] on Miriam Weiner's website contains photographs and postcard views of many towns and cities throughout Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and other select countries dating back to the early 1900s. These include pre-WWI and current town views, photos of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and Holocaust memorials. It's a great way to see what your ancestor's shtetl may have looked like at the time they lived there. | ||
[[File:Lublin | [[File:Plock cemetery.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Plock, Poland. Remnants of Jewish cemetery at Mickiewiza Street, 1994. ]] | ||
[[File: | [[File:Lublin gate.png|thumb|500x500px|'''Lublin, Poland.''' Grodzka gate (Jewish gate) to the Old Town, c. 1990. ]] | ||
[[File: | [[File:Bialystok, Poland market.png|center|thumb|500x500px|'''Bialystok, Poland.''' A busy day at the local market square, c. 1930. '''Source:''' Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | ||
[[File: | [[File:Tarnow Jewish Cemetery.png|thumb|500x500px|'''Tarnow, Poland.''' Jewish cemetery, 1993.]] | ||
[[File:Warsaw.png|left|thumb|500x500px|'''Warsaw, Poland.''' Great Synagogue at Tlomackie Street; built in 1878; destroyed by Nazis in 1943. '''Source:''' Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | |||
[[File: | [[File:Lodz.png|center|thumb|500x500px|'''Lodz, Poland.''' Zielona Street, 1917. '''Source:''' Miriam Weiner Archives. ]] | ||
[[Category:Poland]] | [[Category:Poland]] | ||